Episode 14: Lightning Delay

Hype of the Week:  Lightning Risk Communication Challenges

Guest Starring: Josh Eachus - Meteorologist at WBRZ in Baton Rouge

• The Weather Social: The Social Side of Communicating Weather
• You want me to go inside for a one in a million chance?, The Weather Social
• Fighting Fatigue: The Role of Warning Frequency in the Weather Enterprise, The Weather Social​

Real World Application - OU vs. Ohio State Football Game on September 17th, 2016

• Storms Could Potentially Impact the Game, 2:21PM Central Time, Rick Smith
• Severe thunderstorms to the west were seen well ahead. Other storms developed over the area as well, 3:35PM Central Time, Minh Phan
• OU Football Tweets at 4:36PM Central Time, Oklahoma Football
• Twitter statuses from OU Emergency Prep and WAS*IS Student Discussion on the topic
• Student section refuses to clear out (photo above), Nate Feken ​
• Discussion of the OU vs. Ohio State Game (starts at 1hr 20 mins), WeatherBrains Episode 557

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Personal Stories:

• Minh's Parents are stuck in Taiwan as Typhoon Megi Approaches
• Impacts from Typhoon Megi
• Cultural Theory of Risk
• Understanding Public Hurricane Evacuation Decisions and Responses to Forecast and Warning Messages, Morss et al. 2016
• This Woman Ate A Pork Bun In A Typhoon And Now Everyone Loves Her (photo above), BuzzFeed
• Castle gets a queen bed! (photo below)

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The Debate:

• Fact Check And the First Presidential Debate, NPR
• A Round by Round Analysis of Clinton vs. Trump, The Guardian
• Hilary Clinton's Climate Change Policies

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Songs of the Week:

• Castle: The Greatest - Sia
• Minh: My Way - Calvin Harris​

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